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DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.
Verboticisms
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Damnerism
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: dam.e.rism
Sentence: A few months and a few damnerisms later they decided to quit trying and got a divorce
Etymology: damn+mannerism
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COMMENTS:
Hey W5, I think you're the best! I'm voting for your word today! - wordmeister, 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
thanks meister, I liked that word myself, actually - w5lf9s, 2007-02-16: 02:05:00
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Peccadilly
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: peh-ca-DIL-ee
Sentence: Gloria was appalled when Glenn's public nose picking was revealed as yet another peccadilly to be added to his collection of socially unacceptable faults.
Etymology: Blend of PECCADILLO (Spanish pecadillo, diminutive of pecado sin < Latin peccātum transgression, noun use of neuter of past participle of peccāre to err, offend) and DILLY (something or someone regarded as remarkable, unusual)
Vexitating
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: vex-i-ta-ting
Sentence: Sam was the most vexitating man I ever knew. He had more bad habits than an alcoholic nun.
Etymology: vex: to cause annoyance by minor irritations + irritating: chafe; aggravating
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COMMENTS:
Lol. I\'ve known a few Sams too. - artr, 2009-09-09: 12:21:00
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Chewumuy
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: che-wu-mu-ae
Sentence: I took him for a nice guy when first i met him in university but he proved a chewumuy latter on , i just hate these fellows.
Etymology: chewing + gum. chew form chewing, um from gum. uy from guy. chewing gum tastes great at start but just gets irritating latter on.
Stoppit
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: sto-pit
Sentence: The only thing more annoying that his little stoppit -- he would continually jiggle in his chair like a little Bill Gates -- was his wife yelling "stoppit" every time she saw him do it.
Etymology: stop+it
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COMMENTS:
I like it! - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:43:00
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Conpeeve
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: Con-Pee-Ve
Sentence: His combination of snoring and sleepwalking quickly went from cute to conpeeving after the fourth night of watching him snore walk his way into the wall.
Etymology: Con - Peeve (what used to be a propreeve is now a con)
Irrimating
Created by: MrDigdigdig
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Bob's nose picking quickly became irrimating to Linda
Etymology:
Nasdi
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: nes-di
Sentence: you never take a shower, you'r a nasdi
Etymology: nasty en dirty
Relationbug
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: re-lei-sjon- bug
Sentence: Sandra was in debug-mode; It was time to remove Jack's relationbug's or terminate the program!
Etymology: relationship - a strange interface between java.human.man() and java.human.woman() ************ bug - undocumented feature in a microsoft-application.
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COMMENTS:
I like it. It even works without the CS reference, as in "to bug someone." It'd be better as two words, but we don't really have that option here. Gets my vote anyway. - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:46:00
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Abiquirk
Created by: DaddyNewt
Pronunciation: ahb-i-kwerk
Sentence: Jimmy's demeanor had several fatal abiquirks.
Etymology: abort(to end) + quirk(an eccentricity)
Comments:
wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...
ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.